Cyberpunk 2077 launch disaster isn’t over — regulators now getting involved

Cyberpunk 2077 launch disaster isn't over — regulators at present getting involved

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Things have not been going well for Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Blood-red since the game's disastrous launch last month. And those problems are nearly to get worse, as Polish regulators have started taking an interest.

According to Benchmark, Poland's Function of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKIK), whose task involves ensuring consumer interests are protected, is taking an interest in the situation. Which is not a expert look.

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While Cyberpunk runs well plenty on adjacent-gen consoles and sufficiently powerful gaming PCs, admitting with enough of bugs, the same is not true for launch editions of terminal-gen consoles. Despite promises that the game runs "surprisingly well" on the original PS4 and Xbox Ones, the reality was quite the opposite.

The game turned out to be so unplayable that Sony pulled Cyberpunk 2077 from its digital store, with both information technology and Microsoft offering refunds to disgruntled customers.

CDPR'southward woes didn't end there either, since investors launched a course activeness lawsuit against the company due to its "fake and/or misleading" statements about the game. And now UOKIK is involved.

The good news is that UOKIK'south investigation is not related to the country of the game when it launched, Instead, a spokesperson stated that the regulator is more interested in the progress of the many fixes CDPR has promised and how that will address the issues players have experienced on terminal-gen consoles. They also mentioned that the returns policy will exist nether scrutiny.

Then far UOKIK hasn't handed out any fines to CDPR, merely that may change if its investigation rules the developer was unfair to consumers, or that fixes won't be enough to deal with their complaints. If that's the case, so CDPR could be forced to pay out upward to ten% of its annual income.

While that's not going to do well for company morale, or the pressure its staff are nether to fix the game, information technology does mean they have an even bigger incentive to do it properly this time. It's just a shame it had to come to this.

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